Quartier des banques

Episode 1

Geneva, January 2012. The American tax authorities take aim at the Swiss financial centre, strongly opposed to their banking secrecy. In this extremely tense context Paul Grangier, the young director of the private bank Grangier & Cie is found unconscious, apparently in a diabetic coma. Accident? Suicide? His sister Élisabeth is convinced that it was actually attempted murder...

Directed by: Fulvio Bernasconi (season 1, Switzerland/Belgium, 2017)
Screenplay, dialogues: Stéphane Mitchell, Brigitte Leclef, Vincent Lavachery, Axel Dubus, Jean-Marc Fröhle
Cast: Laura Sépul (Élisabeth Grangier), Vincent Kucholl (Paul Grangier), Lauriane Gilliéron (Virginia Grangier), Brigitte Fossey (Blanche Grangier), Arnaud Binard (Alexandre Grangier), Féodor Atkine (Me Bartholdy), Stéphane Metzger (David Neri), Lubna Azabal (Luna), Karim Barras (Luc Naville), François Florey (Jean-Paul Schneeberger)
Genre: drama
Awards: best supporting actor at the 53rd Journées de Soleure (2018) for Karim Barras
Parental guidance: TV-PG